Forget Kentucky... who would win the NCAA Tournament based on academics?
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Education Week did just that, creating an academically-based bracket with the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate (APR) as the metric for choosing a winner. The APR scores are sourced from the 2015 report released by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES).
The TIDES report uses four-year APR data ending in the 2012-13 school year, the most up-to-date data available on the NCAA website.
APR is "a term-by-term calculation of the eligibility and retention of all student-athletes. A score of a thousand means every student-athlete on that team stayed eligible and returned to school. You begin losing points for students who are not eligible and/or are not retained," according to the NCAA website.
Using the APR scores, Belmont, with a perfect APR score of 1000, wins the 2015 tournament. Surprise upsets include Purdue's loss to Kentucky in the Round of 32, and Duke's loss to Utah and Harvard's loss to Wisconsin in the Sweet Sixteen.
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